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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:38:38 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Question about long long math on intel archs
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At 10:10 PM 2/4/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>  Here's what my decaying 486DX2/66 running the program in a win95 dos
>box had to say....
>
>Did 1000000 long long multiplies in 2.03297 seconds.
>Did 5000000 long long multiplies in 9.61538 seconds.
>Did 10000000 long long multiplies in 17.9121 seconds.
>Did 50000000 long long multiplies in 98.341 seconds.

Interesting. My computer has only about 2.5 times the megahertz but does it
5 times as fast. Must be an extra factor of 2 in there just because it's a
pentium, an this is using vanilla GCC and not PGCC.
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